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Top 10 Titans of the 6th Gen Doubles OU metagame (Final Voting Stage)
- Thread starter ryo yamada2001
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Azu + Thund
Skymin
The meta game pre and post skymin ban is night and day. Dozens of once viable mons and play styles lost their niche or dropped off big time after the ban. Remember when you used to see mega aero, rain, blizzard teams, mamoswine, ect?
Amoongus
No one else is forcing you to run two spore immunes. Breloom ain't shit
The meta game pre and post skymin ban is night and day. Dozens of once viable mons and play styles lost their niche or dropped off big time after the ban. Remember when you used to see mega aero, rain, blizzard teams, mamoswine, ect?
Amoongus
No one else is forcing you to run two spore immunes. Breloom ain't shit
Jirachi + Mega Salamence
Shaymin-S + Mega Salamence
Jirachi + Mega Salamence
Mence + rachi
Gardevoir Jirachi
Votes
jirachi 7
thundurus 2
azumarill 5
mega salamence 12
shaymin-sky 7
amoonguss 1
charizard-y 1
mega diancie 1
mega gardevoir 1
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This time you'll be allowed to vote on TWO pokemon
Deadline: 23th of november
Nomination list:
- Jirachi
- Amoonguss
- Heatran
- Cresselia
- Diancie-Mega
- Thundurus
- Charizard-Mega-Y
- Gardevoir-Mega
- Kyurem-Black
- Rotom-Wash
- Sylveon
- Keldeo
- Shaymin-Sky
- Volcanion
- Azumarill
- Aegislash
jirachi 7
thundurus 2
azumarill 5
mega salamence 12
shaymin-sky 7
amoonguss 1
charizard-y 1
mega diancie 1
mega gardevoir 1
1.
2.
3.
This time you'll be allowed to vote on TWO pokemon
Deadline: 23th of november
Nomination list:
- Jirachi
- Amoonguss
- Heatran
- Cresselia
- Diancie-Mega
- Thundurus
- Charizard-Mega-Y
- Gardevoir-Mega
- Kyurem-Black
- Rotom-Wash
- Sylveon
- Keldeo
- Shaymin-Sky
- Volcanion
- Azumarill
- Aegislash
Kyurem-Black and Shaymin-Sky
Kyurem-Black I think is something that a lot of people may be overlooking. When Arcticblast whipped out Sub Kyurem-B in SPL 5, in 2014, it had probably one of most dramatic impacts on the metagame, that I potentially considerered it as something that could be above Skymin on this list. Fire Water Grass and other bulky balance cores were completely dismantled by this monster and starting falling off a result at the time. This had a dramatic effect on teambuilding because making sure you didnt have too many pokemon that gave Kyurem-B free Substitutes became something to be wary of. Hyper Offense became a lot more prominent at that time as well to combat it because it generally had the advantage vs most passive pokemon like Rotom formes, Zapdos, and Amoonguss which freely gave it substitutes. It maintained itself with active usage up until end of 2015 but starting dieing down in usage this year. Even now when the metagame shifted to be a lot bulkier with more Balance builds, I think people are disregarding it in teambuilding a little and just hoping their Mega Gardevoir is enough to handle it if they have it. I am still comfortably dismantling teams with Sub Kyurem-B in this current meta even though its usage is lower than it used to be.
Kyurem-Black I think is something that a lot of people may be overlooking. When Arcticblast whipped out Sub Kyurem-B in SPL 5, in 2014, it had probably one of most dramatic impacts on the metagame, that I potentially considerered it as something that could be above Skymin on this list. Fire Water Grass and other bulky balance cores were completely dismantled by this monster and starting falling off a result at the time. This had a dramatic effect on teambuilding because making sure you didnt have too many pokemon that gave Kyurem-B free Substitutes became something to be wary of. Hyper Offense became a lot more prominent at that time as well to combat it because it generally had the advantage vs most passive pokemon like Rotom formes, Zapdos, and Amoonguss which freely gave it substitutes. It maintained itself with active usage up until end of 2015 but starting dieing down in usage this year. Even now when the metagame shifted to be a lot bulkier with more Balance builds, I think people are disregarding it in teambuilding a little and just hoping their Mega Gardevoir is enough to handle it if they have it. I am still comfortably dismantling teams with Sub Kyurem-B in this current meta even though its usage is lower than it used to be.
Mega Diancie and Shaymin Sky
Shaymin and Azu
Shaymin sky
Amoongus
Amoongus
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